It’s ever so true…bad RAM does bad things. A couple of weeks ago, my computer blue-screened with this error while NSW2005 was running a scheduled LiveUpdate. I dind’t think much of it. Then last week my computer blue-screened while booting with this error. The second parameter on that blue screen was 0xC000016A (aka: STATUS_DISK_OPERATION_FAILED). I immediately thought the hard drive with the partition that contains my page file went wonky so I ran SpinRite on it but all was good. Then last weekend I was pwn-ing on a Half-Life2 Team Deathmatch server when my computer froze. Thinking back to this error, I decided to run Memtest86 and sure enough, error o’ plenty. To make sure it wasn’t my motherboard or CPU, I ran Memtest86 on some memory that I borrowed to plug into my computer. That test produced no errors. Bad RAM, argh. After buying a new stick from Kingston, all is well again. Ah, the trials and tribulations I have to go through 😉
